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You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

Barry Manilow

Yeah, I’m old as the hills and you would think I’d be out to pasture someplace because I’ve done everything, but nothing has changed.
BARRY MANILOW

Done Hills Thinking
I keep reading about people who want to be famous – it’s not that they want to be great songwriters or great actors, they want to be celebrities. That is scary because you can be famous doing some really stupid things.
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People Reading Stupid
Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.
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Among Misfits Other
Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies show. If you come to the shows, they’re full of muscle. ‘Copacabana’ sounds like it could have been released yesterday.
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Song Years Yesterday
Here’s proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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Enough Long Proof
You say something stupid and the next morning you’re in the headlines.
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Morning Next Stupid
My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Country Great Style World
My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that’s actually happening.
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Goal Happening Involved
QVC has been very good to me.
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Done Good Manner Very
Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.
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Men Trying Visibility
I stay glued to my piano and my work. I don’t look up. I write, I produce, I do the next project, I do my job. I don’t look up, and I try to be kind. I try to be kind to people. That’s what I do.
BARRY MANILOW

Jobs Piano Writing
I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.
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People Thinking Trouble
These days, with ‘American Idol’ and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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Idols Moving Reality
The melody seems to have gone to the country. The country music seems to still have melody and interesting lyrics. But pop music, you’ve got to really listen hard to somebody who’s doing a good melody and a good lyric.
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Country Gone Interesting
Touring is a young man’s game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home.
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Home Men Years
I couldn’t bear the road anymore. I’m sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes – I wanted to go home.
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Home Long People

You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

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You know, when I did ‘American Idol’ the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

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